Comments on: Epilepsy, inside and outhttp://mindhacks.com/2011/06/29/epilepsy-inside-and-out/
Neuroscience and psychology news and views.Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:32:08 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: cavall de querhttp://mindhacks.com/2011/06/29/epilepsy-inside-and-out/#comment-20221
Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:47:24 +0000http://mindhacks.com/?p=18531#comment-20221“Terrible how people try to interfere based on what they see in the movies,”….indeed – who can forget George Cole wrestling a bar between Rex Harrison’s teeth in “Cleopatra”? Stopping a person in a seizure from “biting their tongue” is a real meme – although it used to be “swallowing their tongue”, which is an interesting bit of change over time/place in itself.
There must be lots of these media/tradition-inspired treatment ideas floating around which would be worth collecting.
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Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:24:06 +0000http://mindhacks.com/?p=18531#comment-20217Read it this morning (good thing it’s almost July, NY Times is ready to kick me out after using up my alloted free articles this month). A very honest piece, quite good. It is hard to stay calm when it’s someone we know, it’s exactly why (in my former profession) vets and vet techs are discoraged from doing medical procedures on their own animals.

Terrible how people try to interfere based on what they see in the movies, although it’s never wrong to call 911 if one is in doubt – as is evidenced by the fact that one of the neurologist’s seizures was actually caused by a brain tumor. Another striking aspect of the article. Easily missed in someone with epilepsy, I bet.